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The one after the Fiat 600 Multipla is not a Fiat 500, but a Fiat 600.
Fiat 500 had a twin inline engine of 499cm3, 18 bhp.
600 had a more modern 633 cm3 straight 4 cyl, 21 bhp. The same engine has been produced by Fiat and put in the Fiat Cinquecento (1991-1998) produced by FSM in Poland. It had a different displacement (899 cm3) and EFI for a wow power of 39 bhp.
The same engine has been used by Autobianchi in the car pictured in the first image of the post, the model A/112. It had a 903 cm3 engine with 45 bhp.
The same engine in Abarth models used to reach over 110 bhp, for very small and fast machines (Please see models OTR1000 and OTR1000 Radiale)
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These are awesome.
But you had better not even think of driving them on the Audubon or the LA freeway during peak hours
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The CityEl looks very much like the "Ellert" which was an electric car produced in Denmark in the late 80's
http://www.ellert.info/ (only link i could find with Ellerts)
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Some of these cars are wonderful! I particularly like the Goggomobil Dart. If they only made 700 of them 40-50 years ago, they must go for a mint, now.
I swear I saw someone driving an Avion the other day, or something very much like it (and how many types of three-wheel mini-sportscar can there be?). There are enough old people with more money than sense, around here, for it to be possible.
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The Goggomobil in the picture is an Australian bodied Dart made by Buckle Motors, Sydney.
The Davis Divan isn't a micro car. Being 15' long, 6' wide and about 2400lbs it is about the size of most modern family sedans.
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@ Miss Universe
why? I don't think they drive pretty fast in rush hours in those places.. And in U.S. of A. the speed limit is 55 mph anyway (correct me if I'm wrong) and e.g. the Fiat 500 could run at 65 mph (I had one that could touch easily 140 Km/h - 87mph, please check it here --> http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2221353/4)
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Does anyone know what the green pickup with the crate in the bed is?
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We had some small cars made in Brazil by Gurgel and Dacon (regional companies) in the 70's and 80's.
Gurgel XEFGurgelDacon
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Hi, just skimmed through, my toddlers love this site..
Anyway, you might have missed the Thundersly Invacar, it was a three-wheeler vehicle which was quite common on the UK's road at one time.
http://www.3wheelers.com/invacar.html
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The CityEl is indeed (pretty much) identical to the original Danish Ellert (correct name: Mini-el), and the German website also acknowledges this.
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How could you miss the Peel P50 the smallest car in the world? 49ccs one door one light (not headlight light period), and no reverse gear.
Instead of a reverse gear it featured a handle for the driver to drag the car backwards.
Also in regard to the "Mutt". Mutt was a nickname for the M151. Featuring a short narrow wheelbase and fully independent suspension it was one of the most dangerous vehicles ever built. It would flip over going around a 35mph corner.
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Rayceeya - Peel car is discussed at length in
Part 1. Thank you for other info :)
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FYI, Fiat 600 and Zaporozhets are not the same design at all. Only common thing between them is the design principle, but the ZAZ has no common parts with the Fiat. Fiat 600 has a water-cooled inline 4-cylinder engine whereas ZAZ has air-cooled V4 arrangement. There are basically no interchangeable parts between them.
Oh, and the three-weeled Goliath thing stayed in production in India until 2000 as the Bajaj Hanseat.
Hope this information is of any use.
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55mph speed limit in the US? Not since the 70's. It's 70mph on most interstate highways and in Texas we have a few that are 80mph. Up north in Montana there are highways with no speed limit.
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probably, but in any country in peak/rush hour you are parked in a middle of a motorway, you'll never touch those speed.
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@lamberto - anonymous is correct that many rural areas have higher speed limits on the interstates, but most urban interstates and highways have a 55 or lower MPH limit.
And yeah - in rush hour, there's not too many days when we could even *dream* of hitting that speed :)
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The last one is called L'Oeuf Electrique (French for "The Electric Egg"). I think it was designed by Paul Arzens.
Anyway, if i were to get one this would be it!!!..
BTW LOVE this site!!!^_^
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I seem to remember that "The Bond Bug" has been used as a car in the legendary Mr Bean tv-series.
It has always been used as the car that got ridden off the streets by Mr Beam himself with his little bigger Morris manoeuvring a bit clumsy...
Anyone remembers? Or was it another three-wheeler?
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anonymous, thank you for solving this. Post updated.
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beautiful, i like it !!!
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Great site, i like this
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For Eric...
The car that Mr Bean repeatedly shunts is a Reliant Regal Supervan. Here's a link
http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=mr+bean+reliant&go=&form=QBIR#focal=195c278cccffbfbde6782d7f5dda1704&furl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imcdb.org%2Fimages%2F007%2F718.jpg
Cheers
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I used to have a Bond Bug. It was the most exciting car to drive that I've ever had. It would exceed an indicated 85mph if given enough (flat) road.
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If you want to do a piece of small tanks/military vehicles, then you should look at the German Wiesel vehicle: http://www.military-today.com/apc/wiesel_1.htm
Also the KRAKA (replaced by the Wiesel): http://www.panzerbaer.de/helper/bw_lkw_00-75t_gl_kraka-a.htm
Vehicles for airborne forces are a rich source of wierdness: http://www.portierramaryaire.com/foro/viewtopic.php?p=55490&sid=dfd0f02fe0442cdc0e4895cd59560a96 (scroll down past all the bikes to the Belgian AS24)
And the Hotchkiss: http://www.jedsite.info/fulltrack-hotel/hotel/hotchkiss-tt_series/hotchkisstt-series.html
Loads more - go looking!
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Thank you Weaver! Great info, will post about this. We covered some small tanks in our "Strange Tanks"
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What about the Morgan 3 wheeler! An actually useful and well produced car with three wheels and a small motorcycle engine. A man up the street from me has one powered by a Matchless 1000 motorcycle engine.. WONDERFUL car...not much real use due to the lack of spares these days!
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Terrific site! Disappointing that the 41" wide City-EL did not get mentioned, but that vehicle is too commonplace and practical, I assume!
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A subcontractor on the farm I lived came with his big slow combine harvester on the farm - and his Isetta in the front of the harvester (into the header?). In the evening he drove home with his Isetta, came next morning, and works on with the harvester.
He did that till ~ 1985
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Markus - this is hilarious! Do you have any pictures? Send them in...
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Velorex (or Hadraplan) - leather covered, 3 wheele car is missing in your list.
http://images.google.com/images?q=Velorex
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EXCELLENT PHOTOS! I have one of about 5 daily driven Mini-ELs imported to California until 1993. That Targa model was discontinued I believe; the German models have different roof design, but are mechanically very similar many years later.
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Your mystery photo is Johan Lorbeers.
More info http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2008/04/johan-lorbeers-still-life-performance.html
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Heh, that Bruce Willis pic cracked me up. What is the source on that?
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not quite sure... came from email")
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LHC = large hadron collider. LHC collider = PIN number = stupid mistake.
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The Pope's background looks vaguely like cannabis leaves. < <
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real men don´t drink and drive
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ah, the not so distant future.
Wait, we don't even have flying cars yet. drats.
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The black-and-white illustrations show amazing artistry. Makes me long for the more innocent times of early SF. Thanks for posting them.
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>> Wait, we don't even have
>> flying cars yet.
Let's be clear about one thing. We DO have the knowledge and technology to make flying cars for everybody. We DON'T have cheap enough energy to afford them.
It's amazing that these SF authors never sat down and did the math. It's easy to figure out the energy cost of sending a rocket to the moon. It's relatively easy to figure out what you might find there and how much energy you will get back from it. And to see that lunar travel for mining purposes will not happen, because it incurs an energy loss. Hence the non-appearance of the spaceships depicted in '2001'.
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I see they based some work on the classical Adamski UFO... http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/adamski.jpg
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Anonymous, it's called Science FICTION for a reason ;)
Kristoffer, we do have flying cars, it's just that they are neither affordable nor are they safe :)
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Like Kristoffer said, we don't have flying cars. I don't have one, and neither do you.
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yes, Mikado - I was surprised by the level of detail in these illustrations.
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Superb art, thanks for sharing it!
I notice that image 13 from the top reproduces some of the "ancient astronauts" in prehistoric art, as popularized by Erich von Daniken - the goggled Japanese statuette is on the cover of his "In search of ancient gods" (1972). I didn't know that this master of pseudoscience had penetrated the iron curtain...
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my parents actually own some of the books with Kazantsev illustrations, what a flashback!
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Nice images. I always liked the soviet-style design of the rockets.
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my god... i have re-read all of these books times and times again when i was a kid.... simply amazing sci-fi in the best of soviet tradition of "realistic sci-fi" thank you.... andrei
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Nice illustrations. Post linked with Spanish translation. Ciao.
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It seems like Flash Gordon from Alex Raymond. Very good ilustrations.
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ПРЕВЕД КРАСАВЧЕГИ!!!!
КАРТИНГИ ЖГУТ!!!!
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The last black and white one is not from a Kazantsev's book. It's actually the last illustration from a famous set to the Strugatsky bros.'s "The Land of Crimson Clouds" (their feud with Kazantsev was legendary). And, yes, Kazantsev WAS a proponent of the "ancient astronauts" theory -- and he might even precede Deniken, as his first books about it were in 40'es, IIRC.
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Wow Khathi - great info - i actually read "The Land of Crimson Clouds" - see http://www.scifi.darkroastedblend.com
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The "great fake" seems very unlikely to be a fake... that's just what opossums look like.
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The flat turtle is a Cantor's giant turtle form Cambodia.
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the fake isn't fake--it's called a Solenodon, and they live in Cuba and Haiti:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenodon
--TwoDragons
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Your "monkey emoting" looks strangely like an ape.
Great collection.
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Not just any ape, Anonymous @ 6:27 -- that's
Snowflake, aka Copito de Nieve, an albino gorilla.
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The Cantor's giant turtle is by David Emmett: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/photogalleries/wip-week29/photo3.html
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Tali - thank you. Updated.
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The Soledonon criature reminds me of those garbage rats from Jim Henson's Fraggle rock.
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The "rat vodka" is claimed to be mouse wine, used as a medicinal. Sources variously claim it to be Korean or Chinese, or that the entire thing may be a practical joke; at least one bottle (in a video) is evidently a soju bottle, and nobody sells mouse soju.
The Magic Kitten is reminiscent of late
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Sabina - that's exactly what I thought it was :)
Sigivald - this link is the definition of psychedelic cats...
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http://lh5.ggpht.com/abramsv/SBguaCdo1vI/AAAAAAAAPxk/oMAVQ8ryaGU/s800/1047asdas.jpg
IT is leprosorium.ru !!!!
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I think you got the "Baby Bison" pic mixed up. I think this is the bison: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/455466354/in/set-72157600052294517/
And the photo you have are mountain goat/sheep lambs belonging to this creature: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/448407969/in/set-72157600052294517/
(credit still Valerie Ucumari)
Keep up th good work: I look in to DRB daily. :)
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I was struck by how much that 'fierce owl' looks like Gimli [the dwarf] from Lord of The Rings...
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wow, that red tailed hawk giving a piggyback ride to a red shouldered lark is amazing!
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An interesting fact about the Solenoid is it's the only mammal that injects rattlesnake like venom through it's fangs. Nasty little critter.
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Awesome selection!
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Re: Kalashnikov Vodka - Not just an appropriation of a known brand name. Apparently, in Russia, it's common for famous people to partner with a distillery to release a vodka that they endorse (in return for a handsome cheque, I assume). And Kalashnikov Vodka is indeed endorsed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47.
Re: Phonebox/Kayak - That looks like a BT (British Telecom) phonebox, and England certainly did have floods resulting in 4-5ft water a couple of times in the last few years. So it's entirely possible that it's real.
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Cool
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Re: Phone box underwater - this is almost certainly not photoshopped. Last summer we (the UK, can tell from the BT phone box) had some incredibly severe flooding, which was probably when this photo was taken.
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JEEZ..
How will some of them grow up in a few years
kids today really have a short childhood
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Thank you! Great article!
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#6 looks a lot like Dennis Hopper
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"Dr. Aibolit" talks to the animals and is known as "Dr. Dolittle" in the western world.
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And we wonder why so many chidlren of today have 'issues' lol. Great post!
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Can you say "ethnocentric"? I knew you could...
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I may never sleep again. Surely there must be some charity I can contribute to that will put an end to nightmarish playground design.
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Man, I would have loved these things as a kid. I still love them today, but sadly I'm a bit too old to go onto playgrounds without people talking and arrests going on.
When I have kids, I shall have to import some of these things for them!
"Cadaver eating orcs" needs to become a world-wide catchphrase.
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"Dr. Aibolit" is just a plastic horse somebody's posed and drawn a face on the tail...
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"Anonymous said...
"Dr. Aibolit" is just a plastic horse somebody's posed and drawn a face on the tail..."
I think the descriptions are above the pictures. The Dr. Aibolit figure is the one with the red cross on his/her head.
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That last one will haunt my dreams. Thanks a lot, jerks! :)
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Maybe if American children grew up with stuff like this, they wouldn't turn into whiny, ethnocentric fops with no sense of adventure or creativity who expect everything to be safe.
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These are so much more creative than the playgrounds kids in america have today. Every playground looks the same. From the rececycled material padding the bottom of the play area to the bridge, 2 slides (1 going in a corkscrew) the bars to hand on and the tic tac tow in plastic blocking under the platform for the bridge and slide. Did I not just describe every playground from every neighborhood across america. And I live in Hawaii and we got this too. Go Capitalism. Standard playgrounds make standardized brains to take standardized tests.
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Thank you anonymous. I totally agree with this. Suburbs are all like this... a bunch of pre-fabricated blocks everywhere.
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I think, actually, that this is more related to the norm that existed in child-rearing for hundreds of years. You let your kid know that scary things exist out there, instead of making vague intimations about kidnappers and keeping them in a bubble.
Really, these wouldn't have anything to do with the problems kids have TODAY (speaking as, in America, which is where I assume Andrew is posting from) because kids today AREN'T exposed to this sort of thing.
Have you noticed? Kids' entertainment, the bad guys are getting bland and cuddly (if there are any) and the good guys are the ones to perpetrate the violence, if there is any.
No monsters, in my opinion, means children grow up with unrealistic ideas about how to interact with the world. There ARE monsters, all kinds--poverty, disease, pedophiles, kidnappers, etc. And children aren't being taught to sublimate the existence of these threats on a level they can understand.
Of course these threats SHOULDN'T exist, but as long as we do we're not doing kids a favor by trying to hide the fact that 'scary things can get you' from them. As in abstinence-only sex education, telling someone not to worry about something, they're too young to know about it, is obviously not a viable or intelligent option.
There's my rant. I love these, I grew up in cold-war Europe and saw monsters and went to torture museums as a kid. When I moved to America, it was pretty noticeable how sheltered some of the other kids were. Not necessarily from the sex and violence portrayed in the media, they got plenty of that, but it was untempered by a healthy understanding of the risks they personally ran. It was all an abstraction to them, with no concept of their own placement in it.
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Loved seeing Nyarlathotep in riverside installation, the dedication definitely was there,lol.
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fantastic!
i love this stuff but the chimp one at the end gives me the fear something chronic.
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My gosh, some of this reminds me of haphazard scenes out of Second Life!
» http://lh6.ggpht.com/abramsv/SBuvBido3pI/AAAAAAAAQCk/oGNafsu9QNw/s1600-h/116522017.jpg
^ in particular looks like a melted-down Smurfette.
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Really, while the photos are intriguing, I find it far more interesting that there's quite literally no subject that can't be turned into a cynical dig at America and/or capitalism.
Those tame cookie-cutter playgrounds don't exist because some corporate fat-cat is churning them out in a bid to stunt childrens' mental growth. Lawyers survive by encouraging parents to sue those corporations every time little Johnny gets an skinned knee or barked shin from "unsafe" playground equipment.
Those "evil" corporations don't have any choice in the matter if they want to survive.
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I happen to think these are beautiful.
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Better than Disneyland. Actually, much much better.
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The shy-looking red devil/king thing is great. I'd like to have one, although I don't know what I'd do with it...
The vegetable thing looks like a giant turnip to me. I wonder if the leaves are slides?
Also, the ape at the end is REALLY something. Wow.
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256 - The "Red Devil" is Kaschei the Immortal from Russian fairy tales - and he's got his life hidden in the needle, in the egg inside the box.
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loved this collection---thanks. Wish these sorts of things decorated my local playgrounds!
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thanks for collecting those photos, awesome post! we had lots of laughs at these pics.
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i also got a nice set on flickr with some scrap metal sculptures from israel,
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The "vegetable thing" is actually a giant turnip from a fairytale I really loved when I was young. Grandpa's turnip grows huge, and he can't get it up, so Grandma helps. Turnip doesn't get up, so their grandson helps. But the turnip doesn't get up, so eventually there's the horse and cows and dog and cat etc. helping, with little effect. Finally a tiny mouse helps and they get the turnip up. This was always told with sound effects and I had to imagine who else could help in order to get the turnip up from the ground.
One of the sculptures on the first page also depicted this. Guess it must look extremely freaky unless you know the story.
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Hey, you know what? Even though I can agree that SOME of this stuff is downright ugly (but please don't forget that many of them are just in a terrible shape, that's it), only those people having no clue what-so-ever about what these things are about (cultural background, fairytales, cartoons, etc.), can make fun of these and think they are stupid or insane. I grew up in Russia in late 60's - early 70's, and believe me, the playgrounds that we had back then were so much more entertaining that anything I can see now in America and Canada, for example. To me, those "mysterious little monsters" (they are buddies of the more well-known Cheburashka, BTW) are far more appealing than any Disney character. I totally agree with people here talking about standardized thinking and keeping children in a bubble -- these are real evil things. And BTW, I can see waaay more young people "having issues" than folks who grew up in those days and in those playgrounds. WTF is a depression or anxiety disorder in a kid?!? They did not exist back then, plain and simple. Jeez, people, get real, and get a life...
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Anonymous, I'm sure people back in Russia would poke in fun at unfamiliar American cultural figures and find them bizarrely unattractive, just like the hair growing out of a strange old man's nose and ears are hideous, but never on your own beloved grandfather.
As well you're right about disorders present in today's children, and we have a name for them all- but that hardly means this generation is less mentally fit than the one before, and the one before that.
I started kindergarten in the California public school system in 1967, and nobody was labelled as having "A.D.D." or "Autistic", but there were a couple of kids in every class who were fidgety and disruptive, often a genius in entrance testing but short attention span resulted in C's by midyear- (cough, ahem, me) or another who droned on and on about some insanely boring subject until someone pounded him into the asphalt at recess- remember in those days if you didn't come home with a bloody nose or a fat lip once a month or so there was something strange going on.
I didn't know mom wasn't normal because once a week I was late for school when she got halfway to the campus with me and insisted we go back home so she could be sure the clothes iron she'd used in the den then put in its box in the kitchen REALLY WAS UNPLUGGED and couldn't burn down the house. All those nights she kept half the house awake scrubbing the same tub for hours that she'd scrubbed the previous night, well I just figured we needed a clean place to bathe.
Mom's close to 80 now, you think I should break the news to her that I think she might have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? She'd probably say "what the hell is that?"
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Man those look amazing, some of them I think they're a bit out there, but for the most part they're awesome. Then again I think teletubbies are a bit scary, so to each his own right? ^_^
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So what should we be putting in children playgrounds if these are so bad, Michelangelo's David?
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Wow, notice all of these are in other countries... I think it`s just different cultures, but people in the US would claim these are NOT PC and sue the maker for thousands of dollars, and probably win too! "Judge, my child still has nightmares!", LOL!!!
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Agreed, Magnetic Crow. I grew up in Russia with my mom reading me the Hans Christian Anderson original versions of Disney classics.
I don't understand why people think kids can't handle the realities of life -- I think they understand them better than adults in some respects.
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fantastic post as always DRB!
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The fly on the urinal is a very old idea, though originally it was a bee, as a pun on apis - latin for bee.
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The bomb is a T-12 Demolition bomb, as developement of the british "Grand Slam" bomb, on display at the US army ordinance museum, Aberdeen proving ground, Aberdeen, Maryland
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The image of the boy in front of the large bomb is at the US Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. You can see it here:
http://www.ordmusfound.org/Littledavidslideshow.htm
If you scroll about 2/3 to the right, there is a thumbnail that will enlarge.
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that image of those two snakes were intriguing.
What were they doing?
Getting ready to fight of to kiss
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who's milking the mouses?
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Cats! but of course.
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Those weren't two snakes at all!
The reptile on the right is a turtle... notice the lack of fangs among other differences.
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oh wow! just fantastic!
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The Pasha Bulker was a bulk cargo carrier, not a container ship. Hence the name 'Bulker...'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Pasha_Bulker
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this pictures are amazing.
but they do show one thing. what ever the humans build or create nature will fight back and win. metal doesn't stand a chance against nature.
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I never knew that damage could be so beautiful.
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Here is another big ship at the wrong location:
http://www.cargolaw.com/2006nightmare_apl_panama.html
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OMG it's the Borealis!
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In the UK there is a saying "As useless as sending coals to Newcastle" which makes The Pasha Bulker somewhat ironic (yes I know its a different Newcastle
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Check out the S. S. Selma. It is a ship made of concrete that was scrapped outside of Galveston.
http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww1/selma/
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really beautiful set...
Great for inspiration!
Is it wrong to wish there was stuff like this everywhere?
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There's something so majestic about ships and so heart-tuggingly sad about their deaths.
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"Oriskany" was misspelled.
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While not on the same scale as these huge ships check out the Steamboat Arabia museum in Kansas City. The boat sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The story of finding it and recovering the contents is pretty amazing.
http://www.1856.com/
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Tons more photos like this can be found at gCaptain's
Disaster At Sea page. Check it out!
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More shipwrecks, less cute animals DRB!
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Anonymous - yes, there will be part 2 of shipwrecks; and... er, ugly animals.
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Reminds me: I must update my tetanus shot.
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totally rad, man. F--king awesome
mmmm it would be cool to explore a wrecked ship and come across ghosts of pirates and/or sailors who perished in the seas...
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Absolutely amazing pictures...
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The "Murmansk" was a cruiser, not a battleship.
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The "Golf Course" in the Pasher bulker photo set is actually just a park. not nearly enough room for a golf course on that headland. We went to see the bulker while we were in Newcastle.
Big boat, little beach.
Quite funny.
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Great pictures and interesting information. I've linked your site at www.shipreckdiaries.blogspot.com since we seem to share an interest in shipwreck and related subjects.
Juan
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Wow, those are some really amazing shots. I've always been curious about diving to see some underwater wrecks but I don't think I'd be able to go that deep due to some genetic inferiorities. I didn't realize how many are above the water!
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amazing photos!
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Absolutely beautiful & tragic at the same time.
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This is beautiful!
I love shipwrecks!
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Fantastic collection!
re: Pasha Bulker. That isn't a golf course, it's just a park. That was an interesting weekend the Pasha ran aground. Up to half a dozen or so other freighters came dangerously close to doing the same thing.
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The Pasha Bulker weekend was crazy, the amount of rain and the number of people driving up to see it when it first washed up were incredible. It seemed like most of newcastle was driving to see it.
Also anonymous is right about it not being a golf course, it's just a park.
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This is GREAT!
You can actually dive the Oriskany. More information is available on our website www.visitpensacola.com
We also have footage of the first underwater wedding that took place on the deck of the Oriskany in Pensacola Florida.
You can watch that video on our blog www.visitpensacola.blogspot.com/2007/11/love-is-in-water.html
Thanks
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Think that those who enjoyed these photos (and who wouldn't?) find Wired's "High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace" an interesting read: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys.
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hey... very very super collection....
i like this page and hole blog....
super really very very super....
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amazing picures, thanks for sharring
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One artist documented rotting hulks in New York Harbor in the middle of the 20th century -- see the museum devoted to his work:
http://www.noblemaritime.org/aboutjohn.htm
There are pages on his museum site showing thumbnails lithographs of his work and a book reproducing his work.
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Amazing pictures
Very nice colection, even if there is a lot of sadnass behind....
Cheers, Heiko Grabolle.
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For a cool vintage shipwreck, try the Fortuna. It ran aground on the beach of Long Beach Island in 1910. Pretty awesome
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The tracked vehicle with the motorcycle front is just a WW2 german 'Kleinen ketten kraftrad' or small tracked tractor, used for towing ammunition carts, small anti-aircraft guns and cable drums for the engineers. The motorcycle steering is not very effective, so it also features track brakes like a tank.
The motorcycle with the tracks is an NSU Kettenkraftrad from WWII.
Interesting that the Germans actually pioneered the first "mini" vehicle in the world at that time - did someone say environmentally-conscious Nazis?
I wouldn't say environmentally conscious seeing how fuel efficient military vehicles are.
There are still a few Kettenkrads running... see:
http://www.kettenkrad.de/belt2001e.htm
Especially when they tend to DESTROY the environment they are in?
The thing in the second picture is a Land-wasser-schlepper, an amphibious APC designed by the Wehrmacht in 1936, briefly considered for Operation Sealion, then abandoned with the invasion of Russia. It could carry 20 troops and could tow a floating trailer that could accomodate a half-track. The only examples built (about seven) were sent to the Ostfront to be used as transport vehicles, and some of these wound up in Britain where they were tested.
Great info... post updated
That dog just melted our hearts :-)
I believe the 2nd vehicle is a Belgian Utility Tractor, captured by the Germans in the 1940 campaign and impressed into service.
More here:
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/bel/Belgium.htm
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